Archives - 23 February 2017, Thursday

Lawmakers in California and Massachusetts have recently introduced bills that would require their respective states to get all of its electricity from renewable energy sources. California Senate leader Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles), who introduced SB 584 last Friday, would require the...

At the grand opening of Tesla's enormous Gigafactory in July, CEO Elon Musk said he wants to build Gigafactories on several continents. He told BBC he wanted a factory "in Europe, in India, in China ... ultimately, wherever there is a huge amount of demand for the end product." Well, ...

MORE THAN TALK, HE ACTS. How refreshing, another sign of good things once again made possible. An environmental project to transition the country of Jordan to 100 percent LED lights and solar panels already begun, and in time may just save that country an impressive 60 percent on its ...

Exxon just decided to keep a big chunk of its tar sands in the ground. In a press release , the company said that oil prices are so low that it’s simply not profitable to dig up and process the 3.5 billion barrels of fuel buried in one of Canada’s highest-quality deposits of oil sands...

So much of the plastic we use is completely unnecessary; give up these items and you won't even miss them. Plastic is so pervasive in our lives that it can hard to understand just what a problem it presents. Without belaboring the point in too many words, consider this: We make nearly...

Eating less meat is essential to curbing climate change , which is why Germany's Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks is only serving vegetarian food at official functions. "We want to set a good example for climate protection, because vegetarian food is more climate-friendly than m...

is embarking on a building spree – and Elon Musk just revealed plans for up to five Gigafactories. In Wednesday’s fourth quarter investor letter , Musk said that the second Gigafactory will be Tesla’s solar manufacturing plant currently under construction in Buffalo, N.Y. – and the co...

The first robot, deployed on Feb. 16, was unable to conduct any meaningful measurements, as the extreme conditions within the reactor forced operators to abandon it within the containment vessel. The "scorpion" robot, manufactured by Toshiba, was meant to record images of the reactor'...

With the rise of new technologies like fracking and horizontal drilling, oil and gas development in the U.S. has exploded over the last 15 years. As development expands, it's also pushing ever closer into areas where people live. It's been estimated that today more than 15 million Ame...

On the Tibetan Plateau in eastern China, 4 million solar panels silently soak up the sun as part of the Longyangxia Dam Solar Park. It’s the largest solar farm in the world, spreading over 10 square miles of the high desert landscape. The complex sprung into existence in 2013 and has ...

In a bid to get more people on their bikes, and to boost alternative transport methods, France is offering its citizens a financial incentive for purchasing an e-bike. One way to empower more people to go for cleaner transportation options is to offer financial incentives, as Oslo rec...

Over the past several decades, conservation organizations and neighborhood groups in the United States’ second-largest city have worked to recreate some semblance of nature along the waterway. Collaborating with city officials, these organizations have restored some small creeks and p...

The last big burst in U.S. smart grid investment was federally funded, via the Obama administration’s stimulus plan. The next big burst may soon be coming. Both the Trump administration and Senate Democrats have proposed competing infrastructure investment plans measuring from $500 bi...

Wisdom , a Laysan albatross who is the world’s oldest known banded bird in the wild, continually surprises her fans by returning to her home and welcoming a new chick almost every year. Earlier this winter, wildlife officials announced that she had again returned to her home at the Mi...

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"Some years back we lost many animals including elephants due to a prolonged drought. Elephants are becoming endangered from poaching and we need to save the ones we have left by providing water for them until the drought peril is over. We have many elephants concentrating in very few...

If your sustainability strategy is three or more years old, it's time for a refresh. Around the globe, we are facing unprecedented sustainable business issues. From resource constraints and scarcity to the unpredictable forces of climate change, rising income inequality and public exp...

My personal enlightenment to break away from fast food chains and my interest in healthy food came from a sophomore year biology class in high school. A unit of our curriculum was spent reading Omnivore’s Dilemma and watching movies like King Corn and Food Inc. I was appalled by the t...

Here are some of the most unnerving things we’ve read so far in those Pruitt emails. Scott Pruitt, new EPA administrator , had cozy ties with energy companies while serving as Oklahoma’s attorney general, as the New York Times reported in 2014. The Center for Media and Democracy just ...

If you read our insights regularly, these three revelations won’t necessarily be a news flash: Most of us can recall a time when we’ve considered a company’s environmental record as we’ve made a product purchase. About a third of us actually have chosen or not chosen a product based o...

With the rise of new technologies like fracking and horizontal drilling, oil and gas development in the United States has exploded over the past 15 years. As development expands, it’s also pushing ever closer into areas where people live. It’s been estimated that today more than 15 mi...

But over the past 20 years, waterways in and around the San Bernardino refuge have begun to recover. Elsewhere, private landowners often resist programs to restore endangered species. But the refuge has benefited, says Radke, from a group of neighboring ranchers who ”have this incredi...

A big part of President Trump’s agenda involves rolling back critical environmental protections. And yet, the issue that most people think won him the 2016 election is the economy. From coast to coast – and especially places in between – jobs were the most pressing concern for America...

From a 23 year old food forest to a 215 square foot cabin , Happen Films have produced some wonderful examples of people living closer to the land. As is always the case with such permaculture projects, however, I often find myself torn between the benefits of small scale sustainable ...

Did you know that strong brewed tea can make mirrors shine? Or that coffee grounds can be used to cover up small scratches in furniture? What about the fact that drinking more than three cups of tea a day lowers risk of depression? You will discover lots of interesting, unusual facts ...

About 150 people voluntarily left the last occupied resistance camp by Wednesday at 2:00 p.m., the state-issued deadline to clear camps built to oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline. The remaining water protectors joined members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in setting fire to tents a...

Conceived by the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), the project will include a comprehensive planning and investment strategy aiming to renovate the site’s aging infrastructure and introduce quality manufacturing and public spaces . WXY architecture + urban desig...

A new report from Mintel says 31 percent of Americans are opting for Meatless Mondays or meatless days other days of the week, due not just to health concerns, but a growing interest in the booming plant-based foods market. Twenty-six percent said they frequently opt for plant-based m...

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1. Box on the Wall (Variation of Downward Facing Dog) Box on the Wall is named such because your body, the wall, and the floor essentially make a box. This pose is also a variation of Downward Facing Dog , but has a different orientation to gravity that places less pressure on the han...